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Read the community guidelinesToo many drawbacks; I can't think of any advantages for the moment.
1. Overseas offices: The company’s job-bank listing says it has overseas offices on the U.S. East and West Coasts and in Shanghai, but in reality, these offices have been gone for quite some time.
2. Number of employees: The listing says approximately 50 employees. In reality, the Taipei office has only about 9 people excluding the boss, and the Shenzhen office has roughly the same number.
3. Main clients: Almost all the clients listed on the job bank are clients the company has no dealings with.
4. Clock in when starting work; work on a responsibility-based system after hours.
5. Performance bonuses: There is no clear standard, and I have never seen anyone receive one.
6. Leave: Company policy states that employees cannot take more than three consecutive days off. It even requires employees to use up their leave by the end of the year; afterward, they cannot make up the leave or convert it into salary.
7. When the government announced an early dismissal due to a typhoon, the boss also urged us to leave early and go home. However, when we actually received our pay, we discovered that our salaries had been deducted.
8. High turnover; a young employee is considered senior after working for more than one year.
The company provides lunch.
The company is called Changmao Group, but several companies within it are merely nominal entities used to distinguish different product lines. They are all in the same office, except Jinshengwang Biotechnology, which handles products related to Taiwan cypress mushrooms and is located in another building; the others are all together.
The owner is very wealthy but is stingy in some respects. If you don't have enough stationery, you have to bring your own; you also have to bring your own toilet paper. Employees clock in and out using fingerprint scanners. If you are late by one minute more than three times in a month, you will receive a warning, which will affect your year-end bonus.
It is a family business, but long-term employees receive no preferential treatment and can still be harshly reprimanded. When the owner is in a bad mood, they will also nitpick, but always over very minor matters: how the lights should be turned on, where things are placed, drinking water, eating, and so on can all become subjects of criticism. If something cannot be found, they will scold you, even though the owner may actually be the one who took it somewhere and forgot where it was…
It feels like many things are in progress, but nothing is ever confirmed. There is often very little to do at work. The supervisor sits behind you and can clearly see your computer screen. They may also tell you what to do by speaking to you directly from behind or modify documents themselves. There is no privacy at all. Occasionally, you inevitably need to take care of a personal matter, and they will tell you that there is a camera behind you, so you should be careful… It is a very restrictive place…